| "Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion." »William Cullen Bryant |
| "Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom." »Laurence Sterne |
| "Faith in tomorrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition." »George Barrell Cheever |
| "The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs when he first appears he is a protector." »Plato |
| "At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted." »Eric Idle |
| "Engineering is the art or science of making practical." »Samuel C. Florman |
| "practical politics consists in ignoring facts." »Henry Adams |
| "If I was a father in a waiting room, and the nurse came out and said, 'Congratulations, it's a girl,' I think a good gag would be to get real mad and yell, 'A girl You must have me mixed up with THAT dork' and point to another father." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist." »Eric Hoffer |
| "Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible." »Claude T Bissell |
| "Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks." »John Kenneth Galbraith |
| "Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise risking more than others think is safe dreaming more than others think is practical and expecting more than others think is possible." »Unknown |
| "The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power." »Charles Caleb Colton |
| "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." »Henry Louis Mencken |
| "practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only." »Samuel Smiles |
| "Leadership excellence requires a balanced mix of paradoxes. Leaders need to be visionary yet practical, teachers yet learners, and believers yet open-minded." »Med Yones |
| "Leadership excellence requires a balanced mix of paradoxes. Leaders need to be visionary yet practical, teachers yet learners, and believers yet open-minded." »Med Yones |
| "There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke." »Herman Melville |
| "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." »H.L. Mencken |
| "There is no logical answer to the question ' Why be moral'. Religions provide practical answers to the question." »B. J. Gupta |
| "However infinite the Universe may be, our true and practical universe is still the surroundings of the house we live in." »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true." »Woodrow Wilson |
| "The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all." »Alan Simpson |
| "The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical." »William Seward Burroughs |
| "Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity." »Bertrand Russell |
| "I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiqus, one with another across the years, and noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism in the reports which followed the summit meetings and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuing years." »Margaret Hilda Thatcher |
| "The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree." »Alexander Graham Bell |
| "The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and sand dunes but poor in natural resources and vital raw materials, has been no easy task Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream." »Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe |
| "Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. A well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research." »Marie Curie |
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